To determine whether medical interns sleep more and perform better with protected sleep while on extended overnight shifts, Volpp and coauthors conducted a randomized controlled trial involving 106 interns and senior medical students. Participants were randomly assigned in twelve 4-week blocks to a standard shift or one that included protected sleep from 12:30 to 5:30 am.

Eva and coauthors analyzed a medical school admissions protocol using a 12-station multiple mini-interview by comparing scores on Canadian national licensing examinations. In an Editorial, Kirch describes how changes to the admissions process can help identify students who have the greatest potential to be the physicians of the future.

To evaluate the general medicine career plans of internal medicine residents and how career plans evolve during training, West and Dupras analyzed data from 16 781 third-year internal medicine residents in the United States. See the related Editorial by Schwartz.